My theory is similar, and it goes like this:

Every single thing he did in his entire life was calculating to make him money, fame, and power at the expense of other people. This started when he young: dodging the draft in the Vietnam War, cheating contractors, and defrauding his “university” students.

Predictably, it extended into his presidency: conning the lesser educated white nationalists into believing that he along could eliminate liberalism and make American great again.

His friendship with Putin (arguably the world’s most ruthless dictator) showed our nation and the rest of the world how little regard he had for honesty and decency, and how he adored the absolute power enjoyed my Putin and the other world dictators.

Then came his claims that the 2020 election was stolen, the violence of January 6th, his interest in annexing Canada and Greenland, and his economic policies that can only prove devastating to the United States in the long-term (long after he’s gone).

It all comes down to one guiding principle: Trump will do whatever’s good for Trump in that moment of time, regardless of how destructive it is to all others.

How History Will Look at Trump in Retrospect